50 places to see before you die, according to 20,000 viewers of the BBC’s “Holiday” programme (2003?). See also interesting article “things to do-before-you-die-ism“, and my travelblog(I never quite finished the text – I blame the chest infection I got on Europe Tour! Decided to make myself feel grateful for all the opportunities I have already had to travel – and you can pretty much assume if I haven’t been somewhere, I want to go there…

1. The Grand Canyon, USA
   
2. Great Barrier Reef, east coast of Queensland, Australia Been here!
   
3. Florida and Walt Disney, USA Been here!
4. South Island, New Zealand Been here!
5. Cape Town and Table Mountain, South Africa
6. Golden Temple at Amritsar, Punjab, India
7. Las Vegas, Nevada
8. Sydney, Australia Been here!
9. New York
10. Taj Mahal
11. Canadian Rockies
12. Uluru (Ayers Rock), Australia Been here!
13. Chichen Itza, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
14. Machu Picchu, Peru Been here!
15. Niagara Falls
16. Petra, Jordan
17. The Pyramids, Cairo
18. Venice Been here!
19. Maldives, Indian Ocean, 450 miles SW of Sri Lanka
20. Great Wall of China
21. Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
22. Hong Kong
23. Yosemite National Park
24. Hawaii
25. Auckland, New Zealand Been here!
26. Iguassu Falls, Argentina and Brazil Been here!
27. Paris Been here!
28. Alaska
29. Angkor Wat, Cambodia Been here!
30. Nepal, Himalayas
31. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Been here!
32. Masai Mara, Kenya
33. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
34. Luxor, Egypt
35. Rome Been here!
36. San Francisco
37. Barcelona Been here!
38. Dubai, United Arab Emirates
39. Singapore Been here!
40. La Digue, Seychelles, 1000 miles E of Kenya.
41. Sri Lanka, S of India
42. Bangkok, Thailand Been here!
43. Barbados, 100 miles E of the Caribbean chain
44. Iceland
45. Terracotta Army, Xi’an, China
46. Zermatt, Switzerland
47. Angel Falls, Venezuela
48. Abu Simbel, Egypt
49. Bali, in the Indonesian archipelago
50. French Polynesia (Bora Bora), 165 miles NW of Tahiti

List from here, wonder what it would look like in 2010. I am looking at going to Amsterdam with Fiona at Easter. Here is some of the places I have said I want to go, what do you think I’m missing?!